The claim that anyone has the "right" to anything ignores that no one has the right to anything unless they have the power to exclude others.
This is certainly true of real property. The property has no particular use to me if everyone can use it without limitation. Now, give me a small army of gunslingers and I can make my land worth something.
Until someone comes along with a bigger army, of course.
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devil's bargain
I think the devil's bargain in patents is the exchange of the monopoly for the disclosure of the invention.
rights
The claim that anyone has the "right" to anything ignores that no one has the right to anything unless they have the power to exclude others.
This is certainly true of real property. The property has no particular use to me if everyone can use it without limitation. Now, give me a small army of gunslingers and I can make my land worth something.
Until someone comes along with a bigger army, of course.